School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine

Dr Arne Jacobs

  • Research Fellow (Evolution & Diversity)

Research interests

Research groups

Publications

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Jump to: 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019
Number of items: 19.

2026

Koene, J. Peter, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Bartolin, Patrick, Baer, Jan, Frei, David, Vonlanthen, Pascal and Brinker, Alexander (2026) Multiple genetic origins of non-native, self-sustaining rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in streams in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Evolutionary Applications, 19(5), e70271. (doi: 10.1111/eva.70271)

Baumann, Zofia, Conover, David, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Wilder, Aryn, Baumann, Hannes, Overgaard Therkildsen, Nina, Akopyan, Maria and Rick, Jessica A. (2026) Multiple chromosomal inversions modulate continuous local adaptation along a steep thermal cline. Science, 391(6789), pp. 1015-1021. (doi: 10.1126/science.ady6774) (PMID:41785359)

2025

Lim, Rivka M., Arme, Thomas M., Arinaitwe, Moses, Barungi, Andrina, Crellen, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2934-1063, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Pedersen, Amy B., Webster, Joanne P. and Lamberton, Poppy H. L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2025) How useful is Nanopore adaptive sampling for sequencing Schistosoma mansoni miracidia? Wellcome Open Research, 10, 239. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.24094.1) (PMID:40495926) (PMCID:PMC12149812)

2024

Riyahi, Sepand, Liebermann-Lilie, Navina D., Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Korsten, Peter, Mayer, Uwe and Schmoll, Tim (2024) Transcriptomic changes in the posterior pallium of male zebra finches associated with social niche conformance. BMC Genomics, 25(1), 694. (doi: 10.1186/s12864-024-10573-y) (PMID:39009985) (PMCID:39009985)

Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Velotta, Jonathan, Tigano, Anna, Wilder, Aryn, Baumann, Hannes and Overgaard Therkildsen, Nina (2024) Temperature-dependent gene regulatory divergence underlies local adaptation with gene flow in the Atlantic silverside. Evolution, 78(6), pp. 1133-1149. (doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpae049) (PMID:38517121)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Fenton, Sam, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995 and Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 (2024) Genomic underpinnings of head and body shape in Arctic charr ecomorph pairs. Molecular Ecology, 33(7), e17305. (doi: 10.1111/mec.17305) (PMID:38421099)

Verta, Jukka-Pekka and Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447 (2024) The evolutionary significance of post-transcriptional gene regulation. Heredity, 132, pp. 117-119. (doi: 10.1038/s41437-024-00674-5) (PMID:38366090)

2022

Akopyan, Maria, Tigano, Anna, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Wilder, Aryn P., Baumann, Hannes and Therkildsen, Nina O. (2022) Comparative linkage mapping uncovers recombination suppression across massive chromosomal inversions associated with local adaptation in Atlantic silversides. Molecular Ecology, 31(12), pp. 3323-3341. (doi: 10.1111/mec.16472) (PMID:35403755)

Verta, Jukka-Pekka and Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447 (2022) The role of alternative splicing in adaptation and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 37(4), pp. 299-308. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.010) (PMID:34920907)

2021

Crespel, Amélie, Schneider, Kevin, Miller, Toby, Rácz, Anita, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2021) Genomic basis of fishing-associated selection varies with population density. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(51), e2020833118. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2020833118) (PMID:34903645) (PMCID:PMC8713780)

Lou, Runyang Nicolas, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Wilder, Aryn P. and Therkildsen, Nina Overgaard (2021) A beginner's guide to low‐coverage whole genome sequencing for population genomics. Molecular Ecology, 30(23), pp. 5966-5993. (doi: 10.1111/mec.16077) (PMID:34250668)

Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Alternative splicing and gene expression play contrasting roles in the parallel phenotypic evolution of a salmonid fish. Molecular Ecology, 30(20), pp. 4955-4969. (doi: 10.1111/mec.15817) (PMID:33502030) (PMCID:PMC8653899)

Tigano, Anna, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Wilder, Aryn P., Nand, Ankita, Zhan, Ye, Dekker, Job and Therkildsen, Nina Overgaard (2021) Chromosome-level assembly of the Atlantic silverside genome reveals extreme levels of sequence diversity and structural genetic variation. Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(6), evab098. (doi: 10.1093/gbe/evab098) (PMID:33964136) (PMCID:PMC8214408)

Salmón, P. et al. (2021) Continent-wide genomic signatures of adaptation to urbanisation in a songbird across Europe. Nature Communications, 12, 2983. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23027-w) (PMID:34016968) (PMCID:PMC8137928)

Schwabl, P. et al. (2021) Colonization and genetic diversification processes of Leishmania infantum in the Americas. Communications Biology, 4, 139. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01658-5) (PMID:33514858) (PMCID:PMC7846609)

Watson, Hannah, Powell, Daniel, Salmón, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9718-6611, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447 and Isaksson, Caroline (2021) Urbanization is associated with modifications in DNA methylation in a small passerine bird. Evolutionary Applications, 14(1), pp. 85-98. (doi: 10.1111/eva.13160) (PMID:33519958) (PMCID:PMC7819559)

2020

Burgon, James D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7035-6614, Vieites, David R., Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Weidt, Stefan K., Gunter, Helen M., Steinfartz, Sebastian, Burgess, Karl, Marble, Barbara K. and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2020) Functional colour genes and signals of selection in colour polymorphic salamanders. Molecular Ecology, 29(7), pp. 1284-1299. (doi: 10.1111/mec.15411) (PMID:32159878)

Jacobs, A. et al. (2020) Parallelism in eco-morphology and gene expression despite variable evolutionary and genomic backgrounds in a Holarctic fish. PLoS Genetics, 16(4), e1008658. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008658) (PMID:32302300) (PMCID:PMC7164584)

2019

Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Carruthers, Madeleine, Eckmann, Reiner, Yohannes, Elizabeth, Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754, Behrmann-Godel, Jasminca and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2019) Rapid niche expansion by selection on functional genomic variation after ecosystem recovery. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3(1), pp. 77-86. (doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0742-9) (PMID:30510178)

This list was generated on Fri Aug 28 10:23:53 2026 BST.
Jump to: Articles
Number of items: 19.

Articles

Koene, J. Peter, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Bartolin, Patrick, Baer, Jan, Frei, David, Vonlanthen, Pascal and Brinker, Alexander (2026) Multiple genetic origins of non-native, self-sustaining rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in streams in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Evolutionary Applications, 19(5), e70271. (doi: 10.1111/eva.70271)

Baumann, Zofia, Conover, David, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Wilder, Aryn, Baumann, Hannes, Overgaard Therkildsen, Nina, Akopyan, Maria and Rick, Jessica A. (2026) Multiple chromosomal inversions modulate continuous local adaptation along a steep thermal cline. Science, 391(6789), pp. 1015-1021. (doi: 10.1126/science.ady6774) (PMID:41785359)

Lim, Rivka M., Arme, Thomas M., Arinaitwe, Moses, Barungi, Andrina, Crellen, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2934-1063, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Pedersen, Amy B., Webster, Joanne P. and Lamberton, Poppy H. L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-6318 (2025) How useful is Nanopore adaptive sampling for sequencing Schistosoma mansoni miracidia? Wellcome Open Research, 10, 239. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.24094.1) (PMID:40495926) (PMCID:PMC12149812)

Riyahi, Sepand, Liebermann-Lilie, Navina D., Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Korsten, Peter, Mayer, Uwe and Schmoll, Tim (2024) Transcriptomic changes in the posterior pallium of male zebra finches associated with social niche conformance. BMC Genomics, 25(1), 694. (doi: 10.1186/s12864-024-10573-y) (PMID:39009985) (PMCID:39009985)

Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Velotta, Jonathan, Tigano, Anna, Wilder, Aryn, Baumann, Hannes and Overgaard Therkildsen, Nina (2024) Temperature-dependent gene regulatory divergence underlies local adaptation with gene flow in the Atlantic silverside. Evolution, 78(6), pp. 1133-1149. (doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpae049) (PMID:38517121)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Fenton, Sam, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995 and Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 (2024) Genomic underpinnings of head and body shape in Arctic charr ecomorph pairs. Molecular Ecology, 33(7), e17305. (doi: 10.1111/mec.17305) (PMID:38421099)

Verta, Jukka-Pekka and Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447 (2024) The evolutionary significance of post-transcriptional gene regulation. Heredity, 132, pp. 117-119. (doi: 10.1038/s41437-024-00674-5) (PMID:38366090)

Akopyan, Maria, Tigano, Anna, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Wilder, Aryn P., Baumann, Hannes and Therkildsen, Nina O. (2022) Comparative linkage mapping uncovers recombination suppression across massive chromosomal inversions associated with local adaptation in Atlantic silversides. Molecular Ecology, 31(12), pp. 3323-3341. (doi: 10.1111/mec.16472) (PMID:35403755)

Verta, Jukka-Pekka and Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447 (2022) The role of alternative splicing in adaptation and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 37(4), pp. 299-308. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.010) (PMID:34920907)

Crespel, Amélie, Schneider, Kevin, Miller, Toby, Rácz, Anita, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2021) Genomic basis of fishing-associated selection varies with population density. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(51), e2020833118. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2020833118) (PMID:34903645) (PMCID:PMC8713780)

Lou, Runyang Nicolas, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Wilder, Aryn P. and Therkildsen, Nina Overgaard (2021) A beginner's guide to low‐coverage whole genome sequencing for population genomics. Molecular Ecology, 30(23), pp. 5966-5993. (doi: 10.1111/mec.16077) (PMID:34250668)

Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Alternative splicing and gene expression play contrasting roles in the parallel phenotypic evolution of a salmonid fish. Molecular Ecology, 30(20), pp. 4955-4969. (doi: 10.1111/mec.15817) (PMID:33502030) (PMCID:PMC8653899)

Tigano, Anna, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Wilder, Aryn P., Nand, Ankita, Zhan, Ye, Dekker, Job and Therkildsen, Nina Overgaard (2021) Chromosome-level assembly of the Atlantic silverside genome reveals extreme levels of sequence diversity and structural genetic variation. Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(6), evab098. (doi: 10.1093/gbe/evab098) (PMID:33964136) (PMCID:PMC8214408)

Salmón, P. et al. (2021) Continent-wide genomic signatures of adaptation to urbanisation in a songbird across Europe. Nature Communications, 12, 2983. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23027-w) (PMID:34016968) (PMCID:PMC8137928)

Schwabl, P. et al. (2021) Colonization and genetic diversification processes of Leishmania infantum in the Americas. Communications Biology, 4, 139. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01658-5) (PMID:33514858) (PMCID:PMC7846609)

Watson, Hannah, Powell, Daniel, Salmón, Pablo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9718-6611, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447 and Isaksson, Caroline (2021) Urbanization is associated with modifications in DNA methylation in a small passerine bird. Evolutionary Applications, 14(1), pp. 85-98. (doi: 10.1111/eva.13160) (PMID:33519958) (PMCID:PMC7819559)

Burgon, James D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7035-6614, Vieites, David R., Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Weidt, Stefan K., Gunter, Helen M., Steinfartz, Sebastian, Burgess, Karl, Marble, Barbara K. and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2020) Functional colour genes and signals of selection in colour polymorphic salamanders. Molecular Ecology, 29(7), pp. 1284-1299. (doi: 10.1111/mec.15411) (PMID:32159878)

Jacobs, A. et al. (2020) Parallelism in eco-morphology and gene expression despite variable evolutionary and genomic backgrounds in a Holarctic fish. PLoS Genetics, 16(4), e1008658. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008658) (PMID:32302300) (PMCID:PMC7164584)

Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Carruthers, Madeleine, Eckmann, Reiner, Yohannes, Elizabeth, Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754, Behrmann-Godel, Jasminca and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2019) Rapid niche expansion by selection on functional genomic variation after ecosystem recovery. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3(1), pp. 77-86. (doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0742-9) (PMID:30510178)

This list was generated on Fri Aug 28 10:23:53 2026 BST.

Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • The genomic mechanisms of osmoregulation across vertebrates
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2025 - 2026
     
  • Deciphering the mechanistic effects of multiple chromosomal inversions on adaptive growth rate variation in a marine fish.
    Fisheries Society of the British Isles
    2025 - 2026
     
  • Perch in times of climate change: Differences in temperature-dependent immunocompetence and parasite resilience between Eurasian perch ecotypes.
    Ministry of Food, Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection
    2025 - 2028
     
  • Identifying the functional impacts of structural genomic variation associated with life-history variation in natural populations
    Natural Environment Research Council
    2022 - 2027
     
  • The ecological genomics of the stickleback, European whitefish and wild carp diversity in Lake Constance
    Ministry of Food, Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection
    2022 - 2025
     

Research datasets

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Number of items: 6.

2023

Elmer, K. , Bean, C. , Adams, C. , Jacobs, A. and Fenton, S. (2023) The genomic underpinnings of head and body shape morphology across Arctic charr ecomorph pairs. [Data Collection]

2021

Crespel, A., Schneider, K., Miller, T., Racz, A., Jacobs, A., Lindstrom, J. , Elmer, K. and Killen, S. (2021) Genomic basis of fishing-associated selection varies with population density. [Data Collection]

2020

Jacobs, A. and Elmer, K. (2020) Alternative splicing and gene expression play contrasting roles in the parallel phenotypic evolution of a salmonid fish. [Data Collection]

Burgon, J. D., Vieites, D. R., Jacobs, A., Weidt, S., Gunter, H., Steinfartz, S., Burgess, K., Mable, B. and Elmer, K. (2020) Functional colour genes and signals of selection in colour polymorphic salamanders. [Data Collection]

Jacobs, A., Carruthers, M., Yurchenko, A., Gordeeva, N. V., Alekseyev, S. S., Hooker, O., Leong, J. S., Minkley, D. R., Rondeau, E. B., Koop, B. F., Adams, C. and Elmer, K. (2020) Parallelism in eco-morphology and gene expression despite variable evolutionary and genomic backgrounds in a Holarctic fish. [Data Collection]

2018

Jacobs, A., Carruthers, M., Eckmann, R., Yohannes, E., Adams, C. , Behrmann-Godel, J. and Elmer, K. (2018) Rapid niche expansion by selection on functional genomic variation after ecosystem recovery. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Fri Aug 28 10:23:54 2026 BST.